Birdman, or the coward remake of JCVD
So, Birdman won Best Picture at the Oscars... and "original" screenplay... but...
1) Change JCVD's post office for a theater.
2) Also use that theater as in JCVD's as the allegory of the "prison" the actor has built for his career, that makes him face his own faults
3) Have an actor that doesn't dare to really bare himself on screen as van Damme did, to NOT have his own name as the character's name.
4) Throw balls out continuously blaming critics and costars for most of your inhability to work as a father, as an actor.
5) Blame everything on a character you played and how the public perceived you, not as van Damme's did, blaming himself for his career choices and immaturity.
6) Change the ending, to make the film more "artistic" instead of using a coherent ending in which no good action comes out without punishment. Have the central character NOT learn anything from the last hours, when in JCVD, van Damme accepts the punishment and tries to make something positive out of it.
7) Instead of taking advantage of the limited budget you have, and experiment with real genius while never giving up the focus of the genre you're using as a blueprint for your metaphore, use long shots and CGI trickery to show off your budget, huge as the films you pretend to despise.
Summarizing... watching "Birdman" win 4 Oscars, when "JCVD" went unnoticed by the American Awards is clearly disgusting. "Birdman" is not a bad film, but it certainly benefits from its audience's "unexpected virtue of ignorance".